Word: tenuousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...although the social scientist readily admits that many Harvard faculty members feel teaching women is a "waste of time," he stressed that his report's findings will not exacerbate the already tenuous position of women here...
...specifically prohibits sharing of directors between banks, but for 61 years it has been interpreted as not applying to links between the boards of banks and nonbanking firms. Now the Justice Department is saying that it does. To the defendants, this sudden new interpretation of the law seems very tenuous and unwarranted, and they intend to fight. Prudential refused to sign a consent order, and no company plans to fire its shared directors...
...finally halted the violence around Tripoli. But Lebanon's second largest city had hardly quieted down when street warfare broke out in Beirut for the fourth time since last April. More than 100 people were killed in several days of shooting and bombing in the capital before a tenuous truce was negotiated at week...
...flight from Buenos Aires to a golf and cartoon holiday was the latest chapter in a singularly improbable career. Born Maria Estela Martinez in 1931, the sixth child of a middle-class family from the impoverished Argentine province of La Rioja, Isabel owes her tenuous hold on power to a chance encounter with Juan Perón in 1956. Then 25, she was a petite dancer touring Central America with a troupe called Joe and his Ballets. Perón, then 60, had just been overthrown by a military coup following nine years as President. After catching...
Jerry Ford's hold on the future is still tenuous. Despite a successful transition year. Despite some encouraging economic signs. Despite the successful Mayaguez affair. Despite the Helsinki summit meeting...